SPORTS

Minnesota was a 9-5 winner against Seattle as Eddie Rosario, Aaron Hicks and Brian Dozier homered for the Twins. Rosario finished a single shy of the cycle and drove in three runs to help the Twins end a four-game skid. Austin Jackson and Seth Smith hit two-run homers off winning pitcher Phil Hughes, who improved to 10-6 despite yielding five runs and 10 hits in five innings.

The Cubs trailed the Brewers 2-0 until Anthony Rizzo crushed a three-run homer in the eighth inning of Chicago's 5-2 triumph at Milwaukee. Rookie Kyle Schwarber added an RBI single in the ninth for the Cubs, who won for the third time in four games to climb within two games of San Francisco for the final NL wild-card berth.

Matt Carpenter was 4-for-5 with a pair of homers and four RBIs before Greg Garcia worked out a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth to complete the Cardinals' comeback in a 9-8 win over Colorado. The Redbirds trailed 8-6 in the ninth until Jhonny Peralta lined a two-run single and Kolten Wong scored on Garcia's walk. St. Louis halted a two-game skid and expanded its lead in the NL Central to 5 1/2 games over Pittsburgh.

Corey Kluber took a shutout into the ninth and rookie Francisco Lindor hit a three-run homer and had a career-high four RBIs as the Indians beat Kansas City 12-1. Prior to the big offensive spurt against the Royals the Tribe had been outscored 37-10 in losing the first six games of the homestand.

Jon Lester struck out 14 in eight innings in the Cubs 3-2 win over Colorado. That's one off his career high. Lester struck out seven of his first eight hitters and nine of the first 14 to improve to 6-8. Jose Reyes went 1-for-3 in his Rockies debut after being acquired in a trade with Toronto earlier this week.

Ryan Howard homered for the second straight day and rookie Aaron Nola got his first major league win as the Phillies beat the Cubs 11-5 to complete a three-game series sweep. The Phillies have won eight of nine games since the All-Star break.

Houston's Dallas Keuchel failed to get his 13th win as the KC Royals beat the Astros 5-1. Winning pitcher Yordano Ventura allowed one run on six hits to up his record to 5-7. The right-hander, who won 14 games last year, was demoted to Triple-A Omahaon Tuesday and then recalled the next day after the Royals learned left-hander Jason Vargas would miss the rest of the year with an elbow injury.

Kyle Busch's incredible comeback rolled through Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where Busch won the Brickyard 400 yesterday to sweep the weekend at the historic track. Busch has won three straight Sprint Cup races, four of his last five and also won thesecond-tier Xfinity Series race Saturday at the Brickyard.

Jeff Samardzija, the subject of trade rumors and perhaps pitching for the final time in a Chicago uniform, allowed one run in eight innings and Melky Cabrera homered from both sides of the plate, in the White Sox' 8-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians.

Ervin Santana pitched eight innings of four-hit ball against his former team to lead Minnesota Twins past the L.A. Angels 3-0. Santana struck out seven and didn't issue a walk to follow up throwing 7 2/3 scoreless innings in Oakland last week. The Twins snapped a four-game skid and the Angels' seven-game winning streak. Trevor Plouffe hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning.

In a makeup game involving teams with the best records in baseball, St. Louis held off Kansas City 4-3. Matt Carpenter and Randal Grichuk both hit two-run homers. The Cardinals maintained their six-game lead over the Pirates in the NL Central.

Ex-Pirate Edinson Volquez pitched effectively into the eighth inning against his old team and Mike Moustakas hit a three-run homer to lead the Kansas City Royals over Pittsburgh 5-1. Volquez is 9-5. He won 13 games last season for the Pirates. Pittsburghopens a key four-game series tonight at home against Washington.

Taylor Teagarden singled home the tiebreaking run off Aroldis Chapman with two outs in the ninth inning, completing the Chicago Cubs' biggest comeback of the season for a 6-5 win and a doubleheader split with the Cincinnati Reds. The Cubs overcame a five-run deficit. Cincinnati won the opener 9-1 behind another strong showing by Mike Leake who is the subject of trade rumors in Cincinnati.

Yadier Molina came through with an eighth-inning bases-loaded, three-run triple to the opposite field to rally the St. Louis Cardinals past the Chicago White Sox 3-2. That's the major league-leading 60th victory for the NL Central leaders. It was thefirst triple for the All-Star catcher since 2011, and only the fourth of his career.

Matt Holliday hit his sixth career grand slam, powering Michael Wacha and the St. Louis Cardinals past the Chicago White Sox 8-5. Michael Wacha (WAH'-kah) improved to 11-3 even though he gave up five runs in five innings.

The AL Central-leading Kansas City Royals touched Pittsburgh's 13-game winner Gerrit Cole for three runs in the eighth inning to break up a scoreless duel in their 3-1 victory over the Pirates. Jarrod Dyson's two-run single was the big hit in theeighth.

Royals closer Greg Holland struck out Gregory Polanco with the bases loaded for the final out. Kansas City is now are 20 games over .500. Holland has 21 saves in 24 tries.

In an important interleague series in Kansas City, the Pittsburgh Pirates used a 17-hit attack and outscored the AL Central-leading Royals 10-7. The win moves the Pirates within four games of NL Central-leading St. Louis, which was idle. Travis Ishikawa had three extra-base hits and drove in four runs. A.J. Burnett improved to 7-3 for the Pirates.

Iowan Zach Johnson has won the British Open in a four-hole playoff over Lewis Oosthuizen and Marc Leishman. It's the second major golf championship for the Cedar Rapids native. Johnson described himself as a "normal guy" from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when he won the Masters in 2007. And now? He says: "I'm a normal guy from Cedar Rapids ... with a green jacket that has something that most guys don't get to drink out of right now."

The Mets left 25 men on base, went 1-for-26 with runners in scoring position, blew a lead in extra innings and still pulled out a 3-1, 18-inning win over the Cardinals to avoid a three-game sweep. Ruben Tejada hit a tiebreaking, sacrifice fly before Curtis Granderson scored on Eric Campbell's squeeze bunt. Kolten Wong homered in the 13th inning for the Cardinals, who still lead the NL Central by 4 ½ games over Pittsburgh.

Jake Arrieta struck out 10 and gave up only three hits in seven shutout innings as the Chicago Cubs downed Atlanta 4-1. Jorge Soler (HOHR'-hay soh-LEHR') hit a solo homer and Jonathan Herrera lined a two-run single to help Arrieta improve to 11-5. The Cubs still lead the Giants by a half-game for the NL's second wild-card spot.

Kyle Busch held off Brad Keselowski (kehs-LOW'-skee) to win yesterday's Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Busch has won the last two Cup races and has three victories since missing the first 11 events with a fractured leg and anklesuffered at Daytona in February. He will get a spot in the Chase by finishing among the top 30 in the regular-season points race.

The Southeastern Conference plans to keep alleged domestic assault assailants off their rosters even if it means they land in a rival league. SEC schools passed a rule in May barring the signing of any athlete disciplined for serious misconduct at another college stop. The new rule defines a serious offense as "sexual assault, domestic violence or other forms of sexual violence."

They're off again at soggy St. Andrews, after a more than three-hour rain delay that means the second round of the British Open won't be completed until tomorrow morning.

Parts of the 18th hole were so flooded that teams of workers with push brooms swept ankle-deep water into the Swilcan Burn.

Forecasters are predicting more inclement weather, including some blustery showers later in the day along with strong winds.

The delay will force some players to return Saturday morning to complete their second rounds. That will almost surely include first-round leader Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth who is two shots back and bidding for a third straight major.

Zach Johnson, Retief Goosen (reh-TEEF' GOO'-sehn) and Jason Day are one shot back, as are Robert Streb, Paul Lawrie and Danny Willett.

Tiger Woods was two groups behind Johnson and Spieth, and in danger of missing the cut after a first-round 76.

The San Francisco Giants have signed shortstop Everth Cabrera to a minor league contract. General manager Bobby Evans says Cabrera is scheduled to join San Francisco's Arizona rookie league team initially then move on to Triple-A Sacramento when ready. The 28-year-old Cabrera appeared in 29 games for Baltimore this season, batting .208 with a pair of doubles and four RBIs before his release last month.

A San Francisco bar has filed suit against the NFL and DirecTV over the league's Sunday Ticket package.

Ninth Inning Inc. says DirecTV's exclusive right to broadcast certain NFL games is an illegal monopoly that raises costs for bars and restaurants. The suit says a bar or restaurant with a fire code occupancy between 51 and 100 people will pay a little more than $2,300 for Sunday Ticket this year.

Tuesday's major league All-Star Game drew a record-low television rating, earning a 6.6 rating and a 12 share on Fox. The previous low was a 6.8 in 2012. Fox reports that the broadcast averaged 10.9 million viewers, down from the 11.3 million for Derek Jeter's final All-Star game appearance.

The Kansas City Chiefs have made Justin Houston the highest-paid linebacker in NFL history, giving him a six-year, $101 million package in which more than half the money is guaranteed. Houston has made three consecutive Pro Bowls and was the key to Kansas City's front-seven dominance last year. He broke Derrick Thomas's franchise record with 22 sacks in 2014, a half-sack off Michael Strahan's NFL single-season record.